A Times Investigation with CIR and CNN

Which charities should we investigate next?

Want to know more about a charity but don't know where to start? Leave it to us. Over the coming months, reporters at the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting will take your requests for charities that need a closer look, dig into their operations and report back with the results. We can’t investigate every charity, but we'll vet some of the more popular submissions and share what we find.

If you're suspicious of a particular charity, please take a few minutes to fill out the form below. It can sometimes be difficult to collect all the information we're requesting, but please provide what you can. Your responses will be confidential to our newsrooms and reporters and we won't share any of your personal information.

"America's Worst Charities" is the result of a yearlong collaboration between the Tampa Bay Times and California-based The Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation's largest and longest serving nonprofit newsroom dedicated to watchdog journalism. CNN joined the partnership in March.

KENDALL TAGGART Kendall Taggart is a data reporter for The Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a Massachusetts native and graduate of Reed College.

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About this special report

Across the nation, hundreds of charities take your donations in the name of cancer patients, dying children and homeless veterans. But the real beneficiaries are the charity founders themselves and the for-profit companies they pay to run boiler rooms that dial for dollars. To tell the stories of America’s worst charities, reporters reviewed thousands of charities and charted their finances going back a decade. These charities use deception, and in some cases outright lies, to persuade donors to give. Then they spend as much as 90 cents of every dollar raised to generate more donations. Regulators have proven powerless to stop the cycle of waste and deceit.